Tigers have been popular since ancient times when they were kept in royal menageries and animal collections. Their popularity also continues throughout the 250-year history of modern zoos, as today, considering only the ISIS database, more than 1700 tigers live in 800 zoos all over the world. If we focus on the popularity of tigers, the success of white tigers is indisputable. Let us now examine the background of the success of these tigers, taking into account the positive and negative aspects.

There is a rightly popular charity event that has grown up and come of age before our very eyes while conquering half the world and becoming an integral part of the world of zoos. A cavalcade of a particular feeling, a lot of merriment and heartfelt and selfless moments: this is Dreamnight (at the Zoo)!

Babies of two mustelids - one of the largest, the Eurasian otter and one of the smallest, the least weasel - are playing as best friends in a box. Is it surprising? Maybe, but this kind of moments is not unique in zoo life. We can experience many similarly strange, cute or exciting things which make our work happier and easier.

Altogether 4 Golden jackal (Canis aureus) puppies came out of the burrow in June 2014 in NaturZoo Rheine, Germany. This species being rare enough in zoos made the news interesting worldwide. In addition, they were born in an enclosure that they shared with another carnivore species: the sloth bear (Melursus ursinus). Bears and jackals together? It looks interesting, let’s investigate this kind of mixing and their zoo habitat!

The world’s attention turns to soccer in June and July every fourth year. Even many of those who otherwise are not interested in this sport, observe it during this time. This is the reason why the World Cups have been offering such a marketing opportunity in the past decades that zoos also have taken to exploit. The 20th World Cup is in full swing in Brazil these weeks and it is also connected to the world of zoos in many ways, so we cannot ignore it either.

We could meet a lot of popular favourites in connection with the Brazilian World Cup even before its start, it is enough to mention the former football stars Pelé or Ronaldo who have made several media appearances during the organization stage. However, Fuleco, the mascot of the World Cup, is even more interesting for us than them.

What do you think could fit into a single moment? What can this time be enough for? The question can seem petty or even hollow at first sight, or we tend to think that the answer is: little, hardly anything. But if we give more thought to the question and examine it thoroughly we find that great battles were decided and fates of people were sealed in moments. What’s more, there are joyous moments that make us whole by accompanying us throughout our lives – we remember these forever!

So, certain moments can have historical significance, most of them can never be repeated. Such moments were the foundations of the first zoos, the first succesful breedings, unusual discoveries, gap-filling publications. Believe it or not, You, Dear Reader, are witness to such a historical moment!